4:48 AM ET SANDWICH, England — Well before COVID-19 intervened, the 149th Open figured to have its peculiarities and idiosyncrasies at a course known for its oddities. Royal St. George’s is the closest venue to London and likely the furthest from the top of anyone’s Open list of courses. That’s not to say the links
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Jim Furyk hadn’t enjoyed much success of late when holding a 54-hole lead. In fact, since winning the 2010 Tour Championship and FedEx Cup title, Furyk had been 0-for-10 with a Saturday night lead or co-lead, a span of 3,941 days. And when he played his first three holes Sunday in the U.S. Senior Open
Nasa Hataoka didn’t sleep well Saturday night despite holding a six-shot lead entering the final round of the Marathon LPGA Classic. It wasn’t from worry about the pressure of closing out her fourth career LPGA Tour victory or anxiousness about the momentum a win could give her ahead of representing Japan at the Tokyo Olympics
5:04 PM ET Associated Press SYLVANIA, Ohio — Nasa Hataoka of Japan was declared the winner of the Marathon LPGA Classic when the final round Sunday was washed out by relentless, heavy rain. Hataoka had a 6-shot lead over Elizabeth Szokol and Mina Harigae. She won for the fourth time on the LPGA Tour; it
The return of the Open Championship after a two-year hiatus will be cause for celebration this week. But reminders of why it was canceled last year still linger. Bubba Watson is the latest star to announce his withdrawal from the field at Royal St. George’s, announcing on Twitter he had close contact with someone who
5:44 AM ET SANDWICH, England — Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama has withdrawn from The Open, citing a recent COVID-19 diagnosis and his inability to practice properly in time for the year’s final major championship. Matsuyama, who became the first male golfer from Japan to win a major championship when he captured the Masters in April,
Matthew Wolff, K.H. Lee and Danny Lee have withdrawn from the Open Championship, which begins Thursday at Royal St. George’s. They will be replaced in the field by Andy Sullivan, Antoine Rozner and Troy Merritt. K.H. Lee, who won his first PGA Tour event at the AT&T Byron Nelson in May, will miss the year’s
Scott Brown was born in Augusta, Ga., but the 10-year vet has never played the Masters. He’s damn close to making that dream a reality. Brown made nine birdies on Saturday for an eight-under 63, a performance that moved him from middle of the pack to near the top of the board in the John
3:33 PM ET Bryson DeChambeau has a new caddie. Brian Zeigler, an instructor at Dallas National where DeChambeau plays and practices, will be on the bag next week when DeChambeau plays in The Open at Royal St. George’s in Sandwich, England. DeChambeau, an eight-time PGA Tour winner who captured the 2020 U.S. Open, announced the
NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — An air of incredulity was still hanging over Dean Burmester as he emerged from the scorer’s hut at the end of his third round in the Scottish Open at The Renaissance Club. It wasn’t the five-under 66 he had just shot that had the 32-year-old South African shaking his head. That
9:24 PM ET Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Nev. — Hall of Fame hockey player Mike Modano holed out from 205 yards on the par-5 18th Friday for the first albatross in American Century Championship history and a share of the first-round lead with John Smoltz. After managing nine points on nine pars on the
Golf fans typically have a take-it-or-leave-it attitude when it comes to the American Century Championship. While the most prestigious of the events on the celebrity circuit—“their major” as some veterans of the ACC refer to it—it’s a little like trying to say RC Cola tastes the same as Coke and Pepsi when comparing the event
NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — As has become the norm in his mid-to-late 40s, Lee Westwood took the second round of the Scottish Open at The Renaissance Club in his mature stride. Yes, the opening 65 had been a nice start to the week. But it was only a start. And 24 hours later, the brace
4:27 PM ET World number one Jon Rahm felt there was still plenty of room for improvement despite grabbing a share of lead with an impressive six-under-par 65 in the second round of the Scottish Open at the Renaissance Club on Friday. Rahm stepped up his preparations for next week’s British Open by posting seven
It’s not going to be the same, certainly not what we have become used to. How could it be? When Royal St. George’s hosts its 15th Open Championship next week, golf’s oldest major can’t possibly replicate what was once, pre-pandemic, the norm. “It is easy to say we sound like curmudgeons here,” says Mike Woodcock,
8:50 PM ET Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — Billy Andrade and Stephen Ames shot 5-under 65s on Thursday to share the first-round lead in the U.S. Senior Open. Andrade had five birdies and no bogeys on an Omaha Country Club course that dried out after the sun broke through and the wind came up in
When your day job is working for Jack Nicklaus, chances are you are too busy focusing on your responsibilities to devote much time to keeping your game in decent shape, let alone have it polished for a major championship. It’s also probably a good career move, too. So it says something about the respective talents
Cameron Davis can take solace that his marriage is not the first to put the kibosh on a golf trip. Davis, who captured his first PGA Tour win days ago at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, was listed as an alternate for next week’s Open Championship. On Thursday morning that standing granted Davis a spot in